This past Wednesday marked the one year anniversary of the Brussels bombings. The worst attack in Belgian history. The same day where a memorial was being unveiled the worst terrorist attack was happening to London. The man who drove in to the crowd and then hit a wall has been claimed by Isis as a “Solider of the Islamic State.” When… Read more »
(Reuters) The anti-establishment 5-Star Movement, Italy’s most popular political party, said on Thursday a referendum on the euro was not its top priority and that it hoped Europe would reform before a ballot could be arranged. Benefiting from a schism in the ruling Democratic Party, opinion polls suggest 5-Star is likely to win 2018 elections and its policies are coming… Read more »
(CNN) Around 2:40 p.m. – Attacker strikes The assailant drives a vehicle over Westminster Bridge into a crowd, injuring dozens, including three police officers. The car drives on and crashes into perimeter railings surrounding the Houses of Parliament. Attacker runs around the corner, approximately 50 meters, then through Parliament’s gates, where he stabs an unarmed policeman. Police open fire on… Read more »
(France 24) Signed a year ago to halt the influx of migrants into Europe, a EU-Turkey deal now appears on shaky ground as Turkish ministers threaten to scrap it following diplomatic tensions between Germany and Turkey. Since Ankara and Brussels forged the controversial migrant deal in March 2016, many have hailed it a success for substantially lessening the flow of… Read more »
(France 24) Police in the northern Belgian city of Antwerp detained a French national on Thursday after he tried to drive a car into a major pedestrian shopping street at high speed. “At about 11am this morning a vehicle entered De Meir at high speed due to which pedestrians had to jump away,” a police spokesman told a news conference,… Read more »
Since the 9/11 attacks there has been a growing fear of Muslim extremest. Even with this extremely small minority, countries worldwide seem to be taking an isolated approach to refugees and those citizens from predominate Muslim countries. This week the United States issued a temporary ban on some countries where Muslims have an overwhelming majority. This radical Islamic fear has also spread… Read more »
(Al Jazzera) Twelve unaccounted for at hotel in Abruzzo region as second tragedy hits nearby: the crash of an emergency helicopter. Hopes faded that any more survivors of the devastating avalanche that buried an Italian resort hotel would be found after the death toll more than doubled to 17, with 12 people still unaccounted for. As Italy’s central Abruzzo region… Read more »
(France 24) Hundreds of thousands of people hit the streets across Romania on Wednesday to protest the government’s decriminalising of a string of corruption offences, the largest demonstrations since communism fell in 1989.
(BBC) French centre-right presidential candidate Francois Fillon has denounced a left-wing “institutional coup d’etat” as he faces mounting pressure to quit the presidential race. He has become mired in a scandal surrounding claims that his Welsh-born wife Penelope was paid large sums over a number of years for “fake jobs”. Far-right rival Marine Le Pen said he had lost voters’… Read more »
(Al Jazeera) Government coalition announces wide-ranging proposals, including restriction of foreign workers’ access to jobs market. Austria’s coalition government has announced plans to ban full-face veils in public and to restrict eastern European workers’ access to the country’s labour market. The proposals were announced late on Monday as part of a wider government programme aimed at countering the rise of the far-right,… Read more »